HARVEST
Tomo Tsurumi (sax/piano/composing)
Christopher Paulin (guitar)
Allan Stuart Heltzel (producer/engineer)
ROGER'S ZOO LIVE
Bobby Lindstrom (guitar/MC)
Tomo Tsurumi (saxophone)
David Ford (guitar)
Brian Crawford (bass)
Mike Carrillo (drums/MC)
See You Again, Brian
Brian Forbes (drums)
Tomo Tsurumi (saxophone)
Chunk the Monk (guitar)
Bobo Brazil (guitar)
Jake Lamar (bass)
TAKE FIVE
Tomo Tsurumi (sax)
Allan Stuart Heltzel (piano/producer/engineer)
Influences
Maceo Parker, Masato Honda, Miles Davis, Karl Denson, Gil Scott-Heron, Confucius, Sadao Watanabe, Suga Shikao, Hideto Matsumoto, Satoshi Kamiya, Takashi Matsunaga, and Godzilla.
Tomo is a Ronin (vagabond samurai) saxophonist from far east who has nothing but two legs for walking miles and one heart to love Japan, music and art. He plays saxophone with Beat Crunchers (Tribal Funk), Classic Ballistic Missiles (Hip Hop), Chunk the Monk (Rock-a-delic), Volifonix (Funk Rock: winner of Best of Eugene 2008), Raw Action (Break Dancers), and many more great performers in Eugene, Oregon.
He has performed as a saxophone player of several groups at Bumbershoot 2009 (with Black Eyed Peas, Modest Mouse, De La Soul, Sheryl Craw, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Michael Franti and Spearheads, David Cross, Swollen Members, and more) in Seattle, Macdonald Theater (opened for Grammy Awarded Bone Thugs ‘n Harmony), McArthur Court (opened for Grammy nominated Fat Joe, Sean Kingston, and Chapel’s Show’s Charlie Murphy), Wow Hall, in Oregon Country Fair (Monkey Palace, Spirit Tower, and youth stage), Brewers Memorial Ale Fest, Eugene Celebration (main stage and more), Oregon Asian Celebration (at main stage), Teddy Bear’s Picnic (at OCF fair ground's main stage), Coos Bay Fun Festival (main stage and Pacific stage), and Honk Fest West in Seattle. Volifonix recorded his saxophone lines for all songs of their first labeled album, Oregonism and added him for their Fresh Clipping Tour 2009. They toured 7 states and 6,500 miles and had 41 gigs on 8 weeks. He also collaborated with Chunk the Monk and Examine the Truth's album recording.
Was born and grew up in Tokyo, Japan for 19 years. This is his 13th year in the states. English is his second language, and Music is the first one. He used to teach Japanese in university and high school and still teach origami for free @ Cozmic Pizza almost every Wednesday 6-8 pm. You may see his origami work @ Luckies Club and Cigar, and Jackalope Lounge in Eugene, Oregon. Sharing Asian culture before getting upset against stereotype and misunderstanding is his life policy. The following photos are some origami he has designed.
Totally love the video... it looks like one of yours..... but yeah the library here didn't have audio so I will have to watch it again!!! Sorry.... yeah just let me know what's up for sure Tomo!!! Laters bro!
tomo you're not coming back to portland on your tour calendar!( i miss you man. Want to play. sorry i didn't hook up with you when you were here. looks like things are good though.
The new True Margrit CD - The Juggler's Progress - is now available for pre-order, along with t-shirts and artwork, photo and drumheads, check it out here: http://bit.ly/7Cu8J
Next shows: November 5, Molly Malone's in West Hollywood, CA November 12, Fox and Goose in Sacramento, CA November 15, Bottom of the Hill in San Francisco, CA!
Our tour wraps up with the big show at San Francisco's best rock club, Bottom of the Hill! For the complete show schedule, check here: http://bit.ly/1UgGqQ
(I tried posting a comment a second ago but it didn't seem to work. so sorry if this ends up being a dupicate.) But anyway, thanks for the super awesome show last night at the Jersey, we all had a blast! Hope to see you again really soon. Hey, maybe next time you could play with a little less, oh I don't know, clothing. Could you do that?
thank you for the birthday wishes, tomoto. :) i would love to make it to one of your halloween shows but i'm in southern california for the next few months - if not forever. however, 2 outta 3 t's will agree that godzilla is one saxy motha!
Tomo, thanks for the friendship, we sure miss you down here, but glad you're doing well with the band and all....see you when you visit? Oh, I'm finally able to fold a piece of paper in thirds!
